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Susane Colasanti:
What is the process like on how to get a book that you wrote published into a physical book? What platform do you write your books on?
Susane Colasanti
The process of publishing a book involves a LOT of hard work and patience! Your manuscript needs to represent your best possible work before you submit it to an agent. The first step is to complete your manuscript, then set it aside for as long as you can stand to. Pick it up several months later to revise. After so much time away from your work, you will see your writing with fresh eyes and will want to make changes that will improve your story. After revising a manuscript, I like to do one more revision so that the manuscript I submit is actually my third draft, polished to as much of a high shine as I can manage.
Following that initial process of hard work on your end, your manuscript will be in the hands of your agent to send to editors they feel would be a good fit. This is where patience comes in. You might not hear anything for a while. You might have to revise your manuscript again...and again. You might consider quitting all together when rejections start rolling in. Do not quit. Rejections are part of the publishing process for every author. The only way to take your manuscript to published book form is to never give up.
When an editor (or more than one editor) offers a contract, your manuscript is on its way to becoming a physical book. Now you will do a series of revisions in response to your editor's notes and feedback. How many revisions you do varies. My first book, When It Happens, needed nine revisions, most of them major. But my latest book coming out in July, Forever in Love, only needed one light revision. Hopefully this is because I have learned some things over the past 11 years and 11 books! Generally, the more you write, the more your writing improves, and fewer revisions are required as you move forward.
It usually takes over a year from the time your agent submits a manuscript to an editor to your publication date. As a point of reference, almost all of my books have been released in May, and those manuscripts had all been revised with my editor and on their way to copyediting by the previous May. Which is wild, because by the time a book comes out I have already written and revised my next book that will be out the following year!
As much as I love the idea of writing my books in beautiful notebooks with sparkly Gelly Roll pens in my favorite coffeehouse, I write on my iMac in Word. But you should def use the platform that works best for you. Happy writing :)
Following that initial process of hard work on your end, your manuscript will be in the hands of your agent to send to editors they feel would be a good fit. This is where patience comes in. You might not hear anything for a while. You might have to revise your manuscript again...and again. You might consider quitting all together when rejections start rolling in. Do not quit. Rejections are part of the publishing process for every author. The only way to take your manuscript to published book form is to never give up.
When an editor (or more than one editor) offers a contract, your manuscript is on its way to becoming a physical book. Now you will do a series of revisions in response to your editor's notes and feedback. How many revisions you do varies. My first book, When It Happens, needed nine revisions, most of them major. But my latest book coming out in July, Forever in Love, only needed one light revision. Hopefully this is because I have learned some things over the past 11 years and 11 books! Generally, the more you write, the more your writing improves, and fewer revisions are required as you move forward.
It usually takes over a year from the time your agent submits a manuscript to an editor to your publication date. As a point of reference, almost all of my books have been released in May, and those manuscripts had all been revised with my editor and on their way to copyediting by the previous May. Which is wild, because by the time a book comes out I have already written and revised my next book that will be out the following year!
As much as I love the idea of writing my books in beautiful notebooks with sparkly Gelly Roll pens in my favorite coffeehouse, I write on my iMac in Word. But you should def use the platform that works best for you. Happy writing :)
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